Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Academy of Political Science, a businessman who is a specialist on Japan spoke some far-reaching words. That Banker Thomas Lament's words would be heard in Tokyo seemed certain, for the House of Morgan was once U. S. banker for Japan. That some of his words would suggest to Japanese how they looked to Western eyes also seemed certain: "I have made many friends in China and scores in Japan, some of the latter, because of their liberal views, having alas! met death at the hands of assassins...
Should the U. S. tighten trade embargoes against Japan? Said Banker Lamont: "A private citizen not familiar with all the factors would not for a moment presume to suggest detailed measures to the Administration whose foreign policy along this line has been so carefully developed." Nevertheless, he pointed out inconsistencies and omissions in U. S. embargoes that still permitted Japan to get war supplies...
...critical estimate of the artistic value of the piece would require a greater knowledge of Chinese art than I have. It is impossible to give an intelligible and solid account of such a monument without understanding its symbolism, characters, and historical background. I suggest, however, that for these very reasons, some explanation of the monument and a translation of the inscription be provided by the University and placed in front of the piece...
...suggest that the greater feeling of belligerency in the South springs, perhaps unconsciously, from very practical causes. It is the only part of this country that has experienced invasion within living memory, and it has had bitter proof that the war that is waged on one's own soil is the most costly of all. It is, moreover, the only part of this country that has known what it is to live under a military occupation, and the Germans have given ample proof that they have improved not only on the methods of General Sherman, but also on those...
Voice: "You suggest, Mr. Kennedy. I never look into a man's pocketbook...